Controversial Sayings

You should not have feared man more than God. . . . If thou are not aware thou wilt fall.

And behold, how oft you have transgressed the commandments and the laws of God, and have gone on in the persuasions of men.

It is our divine destiny to be heirs of eternal life, to become 'priests and kings . . . [and] gods, even the sons of God . . . [and to] dwell in the presence of God . . . forever and ever.'

We never can comprehend the things of God and of heaven but by revelation.

Any man that does not receive revelation must be damned.

God did not make the earth out of nothing—for it is contrary to a rational mind and reason that a something could be brought from a nothing.

Love is one of the leading characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the Sons of God. A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the world, anxious to bles…

It is natural for men to rule over women.

It is according to the natural order that women serve their husbands.

Woman is subject to man.

Nothing is worse than a house where the woman commands and the man obeys.

I know nothing which brings the manly mind down from the heights more than a woman's caresses and that joining of bodies without which one cannot have a wife.

I have decided that there is nothing I should avoid so much as marriage.

Our first parents [Adam and Eve] fell into an open disobedience because already they were secretly corrupted; for the evil act had never been done had not an evil will preceded it.

All of humanity is born into the default condition of Original Sin, which shapes the essence of human behavior.

Even in those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression; that is, who had not yet sinned of their own individual will, as Adam did, but had drawn from him original sin.

Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

Woman was not made in the image of God in the same way man was…

The sexual act itself, if not for the purpose of procreation, is a venial fault.

For pride is the beginning of sin.